I feel you’re being unfair to squirrels, associating them with the “seven deadly sins.” I’m pretty sure, were we spry enough to bag one, any random squirrel out of my back yard would do better at running the country than the orange shitgibbon. Also, that would be one less squirrel driving my cat bonkers, so win-win.

Seriously?! Wow. Just wow.

First, thank you for allowing additional facts to change your opinion once made — I truly mean that and believe that the world would be a much better place if we all at least tried to consider additional facts over time and permitted ourselves the possibility of changing our minds, sunken cost fallacy be damned.

LOL

While that would be lovely, fitting, and thoroughly deserved (also hilarious), my god, that’s a terrible summary of what this orange shitgibbon has done to international relations with his complete lack of capacity to so much as waddle through a harmless photo op without doing the verbal equivalent of dropping his…

Hush, you, with your facts and historical knowledge. Now is not the time for you. Hush.

People regularly fall for this and worse.

This should haunt every single member of the current administration that isn’t actively working to stop it ever damn day.

So these Board members are not in favor of the Enlightenment ideals...held by many of the Founding Fathers? Yeah, never let historical fact get in the way of closed-minded mythology.

Unfortunately, women are particularly scrutinized for their work wardrobes. “Too feminine” and you won’t be taken seriously because you’re a brainless bimbo, “too masculine” and you won’t be taken seriously because you’re a crazy lesbian, “too cheap” and you’re utterly unqualified to do anything and likely stealing,…

Zombies and lady bits. Isn’t that always the root of societal ills?

Daaaaamn, that is stark.

I don’t much care who purged what, where, but reading all this pale gray text is hard on my eyes.

Also, passing legislation that makes it okay to run over protestors with your car, and illegal to wear a “mask” while protesting. But we’ll get on that hate crimes thing real soon.

As we’ve all learned over and over again, we can’t just say, “Oh, thank goodness that horrible person is outta there!” because whoever replaces them is worse. It is unimaginable horror all the way down.

Ego. Lust for power. A chance to grift like mad and/or really hurt brown people/LGBTQ+/the poors/etc.

“Look, I think we’ve spent enough time ignoring this problem. Let’s just move on to mishandling other things with fewer brown people, okay?”

It doesn’t take much effort to bump into connections while studying the less “weird side” of the Civil War era. The easiest would be to start at Abe Lincoln. You can go from the death of his son, to his wife getting into Spiritualism (and holding seances at the White House) to someone trying to peddle a “spirit photo”…

Now I kind of want to collaborate with you on writing a show. We could do “Connections” but for the “supernatural.” Part historical story time, part “OMG, do you have any idea how old this particular con is?!”

There’s overlap, sure, but various “mother’s little helpers” weren’t confined to geographic areas. They certainly did have all sorts of other cultural impacts, but I don’t think we can blame the whack-a-doodle religions on cocaine syrups.